children

Our opinion: The child immigration crisis, like the broader issue, requires America to use its heart and its head, not simplistic political rhetoric. To understand how such an urgent issue as immigration reform can be stalled for so long in Washington, D.C., look no further than the Capital Region. What’s unfolding in one congressional race […]
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Commenting about your children on social media sites can be gratifying for stay-at-home moms who want to communicate with other parents and get recognition and praise for their parenting skills, says Jennifer Doverspike in the Federalist. But, the tendency to broadcast our children’s most intimate moments means we’re violating their privacy and disregarding “their integrity […]
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By coddling our kids and protecting their egos, we’ve promoted their self-esteem at the expense of hard work and genuine achievement, say Frank Bruni in The New York Times. The new Common Core curriculum may create more anxious and insecure students, but we shouldn’t reject tougher instruction in the classroom because the real world doesn’t […]
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“The lack of a clear understanding of normal childhood narcissism” and the “brief, compact, and symptom-focused” approach doctors take to evaluating patients could explain the increase in ADHD diagnoses, says Enrico Gnaulati in The Atlantic.
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Parents shouldn’t be entitled to leave work early or to claim the best vacation days, says Karen Grigsby Bates in Slate. “People without children have lives that are as legitimate and that they cherish as much as people who have children,” she says.
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Parents who allow their children “to play football might as well hold up signs saying they’d like to give their children cigarettes and whiskey,” says John Kass in the Chicago Tribune, “Parents. can no longer avoid the fact that playing football scrambles the human brain.”
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“It sounds warm and fuzzy” to assert that children belong to the community, says Conor Friedersdorfin The Atlantic, but caring parents, not impersonal taxpayers, are responsible for the welfare of their children.
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“Parenting needs a paradigm shift,” says Jessica Valenti in Utne. “The American dream of parenthood, the ideal that we’re taught to seek and live out, doesn’t come close to matching the reality, and that disconnect is making us miserable,” she says.
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